Nemesianus

Marcus Aurelius Nemesianus was a Roman poet thought to have been a native of Carthage and flourished about AD 283. According to the Historia Augusta, he was a popular poet at the court of the Roman emperor Carus.

Quotes

• Cantet, amat quod quisque: levant et carmina curas.
  • Let each sing of what he loves: song too relieves love's pangs.
  • Ecloga, IV, 19 (tr. Duff & Duff)
  • The device of a refrain follows the examples in Theocritus, Idylls I and II, and Virgil, Eclogue VIII. It is effectively used in the trochaics of the Pervigilium Veneris: cras amet qui numquam amavit; quique amarit cras amet.

• Omnia tempus alit, tempus rapit: usus in arto est.
  • Time nurtures all things, time snatches them away; enjoyment lies within narrow bounds.
  • Ecloga, IV, 32 (tr. Duff & Duff)

External links

• J. Wright & Arnold M. Duff, Minor Latin Poets, Vol. 2 (LCL, 1934), pp. 451–515
• H. W. Garrod, ed. The Oxford Book of Latin Verse (Oxford, 1912), nos. 302–3
• Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (Anchor Books, 1966), p. 350